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MineralMan

(146,308 posts)
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 09:40 AM Apr 2017

Sending the First 100 Days out with a Bang?

I'm concerned about Trump's summoning of the Senate for a mass meeting at the White House. I'm having trouble finding a reason for such an unprecedented thing.

What worries me most is the possibility that Trump might initiate an preemptive strike on North Korea that would begin about the time of that meeting, and then announce it as a fait accompli to the assembled Senate and then do a mic drop and walk out.

That would certainly be a Trump-like move as an "accomplishment" in his first 100 days.

It's probably unlikely, but it does worry me.

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Sending the First 100 Days out with a Bang? (Original Post) MineralMan Apr 2017 OP
Please stop scaring me! dchill Apr 2017 #1
Sorry. Fear is an appropriate response, though, MineralMan Apr 2017 #2
I know. I was kidding, but only kinda. dchill Apr 2017 #4
With this guy anything is possible Buckeyeblue Apr 2017 #3
I said this over a week ago when the orange menace announced his... Javaman Apr 2017 #5
Not with a bang, but with a "whop"... Orsino Apr 2017 #6

MineralMan

(146,308 posts)
2. Sorry. Fear is an appropriate response, though,
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 09:44 AM
Apr 2017

considering the loose cannon that is Donald Trump.

Buckeyeblue

(5,499 posts)
3. With this guy anything is possible
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 09:45 AM
Apr 2017

I wonder if he wants to push for a declaration of war. Even though it is unecessary, I think he likes the pomp around such a declaration. I also think he gains some war-time powers if there is a declaration of war. Marshall Law?

Javaman

(62,530 posts)
5. I said this over a week ago when the orange menace announced his...
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 10:44 AM
Apr 2017

100 day Nuremberg rally.

I have this feeling that he will tell the crowd, "at this moment, our amazing military with their many many huge bombs are now raining terror down upon the poor babies of north korea".

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